12-letter words containing a, l, d, r
- dinner plate — a plate for holding an individual serving of the main course of a meal.
- dinner table — dining table.
- diplocardiac — having the right and left sides of the heart somewhat or completely divided, as in birds and mammals.
- dipropellant — bipropellant.
- dipyridamole — a yellow crystalline powder, C 24 H 40 N 8 O 4 , used prophylactically for angina pectoris and in combination with other drugs to reduce thrombus formation.
- direct labor — labor performed, as by workers on a production line, and considered in computing costs per unit of production.
- disagreeable — contrary to one's taste or liking; unpleasant; offensive; repugnant.
- disagreeably — In a disagreeable manner.
- disassembler — A program for converting machine code into a low-level symbolic language.
- disastrously — causing great distress or injury; ruinous; very unfortunate; calamitous: The rain and cold proved disastrous to his health.
- disciplinary — of, for, or constituting discipline; enforcing or administering discipline: disciplinary action.
- discolorated — Simple past tense and past participle of discolorate.
- discordantly — disagreeable to the ear; dissonant; harsh.
- discoverable — to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
- discretional — discretionary.
- disembrangle — to disentangle (a person or thing)
- disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
- dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dishonorably — In a dishonorable manner.
- disinvoltura — Self-assurance; lack of constraint.
- disqualifier — One who, or that which, disqualifies.
- disregardful — neglectful; careless.
- disreputable — not reputable; having a bad reputation: a disreputable barroom.
- disreputably — In a disreputable manner.
- dissimilarly — In a dissimilar way; differently.
- dissimulator — One who dissimulates.
- distractable — Alternative form of distractible.
- distractedly — having the attention diverted: She tossed several rocks to the far left and slipped past the distracted sentry.
- distractible — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- distrainable — Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained.
- distraughtly — distracted; deeply agitated.
- diuretically — In a diuretic way.
- diverticular — Of or relating to diverticula.
- divinatorial — of or related to divination
- dockwalloper — longshoreman
- dodecahedral — Having twelve plane surfaces.
- dollarocracy — a state in which private wealth determines the base of political power
- dolly varden — a woman's costume of the late 19th century, including a flower-trimmed, broad-brimmed hat and a dress consisting of a tight bodice and bouffant panniers in a flower print over a calf-length quilted petticoat.
- dolphinarium — An aquarium in which dolphins are kept and trained for public entertainment.
- doppelganger — a ghostly double or counterpart of a living person.
- doppleganger — Misspelling of doppelganger.
- dorsiventral — Botany. having distinct dorsal and ventral sides, as most foliage leaves.
- dorsolateral — of, relating to, or affecting the back and the side.
- dorsoventral — Zoology. pertaining to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body; extending from the dorsal to the ventral side: the dorsoventral axis.
- double altar — an altar on which the Eucharist may be celebrated from either the liturgical east or the liturgical west side.
- double cream — (in France) a fresh, soft cheese with at least 60 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
- double major — a major with concentration in two separate fields of study
- double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
- double sugar — disaccharide.
- double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions